>Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 15:26:08 -0700 (PDT) >X-From_: benbretz@email.msn.com Sat Sep 4 15:26:07 1999 >From: "Benjamin Bretz" <benbretz@email.msn.com> >To: <Dhwaldmann@aol.com>, <NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com> >Old-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:14:15 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [NJESSEX] First Presbyterian Church on Broad >X-Envelope-To: NJESSEX-L > >This article was not quite correct. The Old Burying Ground, the first >cemetery in Newark, was located on the present day Branford Place. The >remains in the cemetery was removed to Fairmount Cemetery in the late 1890s >and placed in a crypt underneath a statue of a Puritan. The churchyard of >the 1st Presbyterian Church, still in operation on Broad Street, was located >behind the church and was turned into a parking lot in the late 1950s. All >that remains of both cemeteries is a list - or more likely a partial list - >of burials there. > >Regards. > >Joan Bretz >-----Original Message----- >From: Dhwaldmann@aol.com <Dhwaldmann@aol.com> >To: NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com <NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Saturday, September 04,1999 11:41 AM >Subject: [NJESSEX] First Presbyterian Church on Broad > > >>Hi, >> >>I have an article about theaters in Newark, Ledger 1936, it states," In >1913, >>the Shubert brothers,... erected what is now known as the Shubert Theater, >on >>Branford pl. The area was orginally a graveyard for the First Presbyterian >>Church on Broad st., and was afterward taken over for the establishment of >a >>hook and latter fire-truck house..." >> >>I do not know if this is useful info ... or this is a generally known >fact... >>just passing on a little info............... Dave >> >> >>==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== >>Read the NJESSEX mailing list FAQ: >><http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/faq/mailinglist.htm> >> >> > ------ Glenn G. Geisheimer germanic42@home.com